Any Wiki-student of criminal justice is familiar with the motifs of Girls on the Wall — the reality of human transformation, cycles of poverty and abuse, the draconian flaws of the modern prison system — but it takes Whitney, Rosa and Christina to make them anything but textbook abstraction.

It's hard not to see her campaign as a challenge to homophobia itself — which is perhaps why you should pay closer attention to this state race than the mostly preordained ones throughout Philly.

When we sift through black-and-whites of Grandma and Pop-Pop, we're not looking for our ancestors so much as ourselves.

Two days of costumed bike rides, BMX demos, a steel steed fashion show, bike sales, yoga for cyclists, a seminar on the country's bike boom and a whole lot more.

Last week, Mayor Michael Nutter signed a law that officially shuttered the Clerk of Quarter Sessions, an anachronistic office that, as you know by now, failed to collect $1 billion of the city's forfeited bail.

"It wasn't like any other print festivals. They're usually based in tradition- and craft-based practices, whereas this one really expanded the idea of what constitutes as print."

"People think the only response to criminal behavior is to be tougher. But the reality is, if you're 'tough' on everything, you end up being tough on nothing."

Iv is currently awaiting deportation to Cambodia, a country he hasn't seen since he was a toddler. That's because in 1996, Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty acts, which made deportation mandatory for any immigrant who commits an "aggravated felony," an opaque term that includes everything from non-violent drug offenses to tax evasion.

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How do you still shock people, when 9/11 and the Holocaust, rape and murder, have become clichéd joke fodder? When John Waters has conceded that he's too tame for today's 9-year-old? When a thing like the Internet exists? You throw a bestiality-themed party.